Welcome to the 2026 REALTORS® Legislative Meetings live blog from Washington, D.C. I’m Kyle Fobe, NAR’s director of news and content strategy, and for the next few days, one of your live coverage hosts.
Most of my blog posts will be on the shorter side, but with this being the first one to kick it off, I thought I would go a little long today, and have a little fun.
Look at that beautiful welcome sign! Our events team does such a great job making all of NAR’s events feel larger than life.
For this event, we have a talented blogging team bringing you the sights and sounds of RLM 2026. I’ll be joined by Editor-in-Chief Stacey Moncrieff, Product Manager Erica Christoffer, Contributing Editor Nicole Slaughter Graham, and our Senior Editor Lauren Pinch is back in Chicago making sure we look and write our best.
Eliana Block, our business writer, will also be doing some live blogging for us. She’s a DC local, so hopefully she can capture some of the local flavor for us!
Since today is mostly a travel, prep and registration day, I’ll let everyone get back to their lives, but a couple fun facts about RLM first…
Over the next few days:
- Nearly 10,000 members will descend on our nation’s capital for Hill visits, committee meetings and education sessions.
- 27 different hotels across the city are being used to house attendees.
- And my favorite fact, The Walter E. Washington Convention Center, where most of RLM will be held, is home to a whopping 2.3 million square feet of event space, roughly the size of 40 NFL football fields placed side by side (or for my World Cup fans out there, 32 regulation World Cup pitches).
With that said, please remember to pack a comfortable pair of shoes!
